Family Centered Treatment (FCT) Clinician

Location:

Gastonia, North Carolina, United States

Date published:

04-Dec-2018

**This position will work out of the Gaston and surrounding counties as well asHickory/Catawba County areas**

FCT therapists strengthen the family’s problem-solving skills and operant family functioning systems, including how they communicate, handle conflict, meet the needs for closeness, and manage the tasks of daily living that are known to be related to poor outcomes for children/youth. The therapist, in conjunction with the youth, family, and other stakeholders, develops an individualized treatment plan. Using established psychotherapeutic techniques and intensive family therapy, the therapist works with the entire family, or a subset, to implement focused interventions and behavioral techniques designed to:

Enhance problem-solving

Improve limit-setting

Develop risk management techniques and safety plans

Enhance communication

Build skills to strengthen the family

Advance therapeutic goals

Improve ineffective patterns of interaction

Identify and utilize natural supports and community resources for the youth and parent/caregiver(s) in order to promote sustainability of treatment gains

Strengthen the family’s capacity to improve the youth’s functioning in the home and community

Utilizes a highly thorough and frequent session schedule to promote change for families with intensive needs.

Provide a minimum of two multiple-hour sessions per week and increase this as indicated by the youth and family’s evolving needs

Frequently provides intensive therapy in the context of the family/home setting to facilitate a sustainable change via immediate and on-site enactments or coaching to parents; offering support where and when suggestions are most needed

Providing telephone contact and consultation as part of the intervention

Provides 24 hours, seven days a week availability each phase of FCT to provide additional support and crisis services as indicated